New Light - Two Sticks in Ezekiel - July 2016 Watchtower
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Listener
A couple of posters have made comments regarding 537 BCE, this is part of what they have written
In 607 B.C.E., the southern two-tribe kingdom and perhaps any remaining ones from the northern kingdom were taken into exile in Babylon.The kings in the line of Judah had ruled these two tribes, and the priesthood was associated with them, for the priests served at the temple in Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 11:13, 14; 34:30) So it was fitting that the two-tribe kingdom would be represented by the stick that was “for Judah.” When were these two symbolic sticks joined together? It was when the Israelites returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple in 537 B.C.E. Representatives of both the two-tribe kingdom and the ten-tribe kingdom returned together from exile. No longer was there a division between the sons of Israel. (Ezek. 37:21, 2
Notice how they are purely speculating when mentioning 607BCE? -
sir82
Just checked - yes they really are that stupid, they do indeed say "representatives of the 10 tribe kingdom" returned to Jerusalem in 537 BCE.
And - what a surprise! There is no Biblical or secular citation given for this assertion.
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Phizzy
No real proof for their assertion can be found, but it may be possible actually, as it seems that a good number fled South when Assyria invaded the North, and the population suddenly went up in and around Jerusalem. -
Room 215
"I wonder if jw's are on the long and winding road to "all partaking"...."
Freddo, I think you're on to something. Just let this this year's partakers come in with yet another year-on-year increase and Bingo! New Light!! No more fretting about who does and who doesn't ... wiped away with a stroke of Splane's magic pen!